All Consumed New Album Approaching (interview) Preston based mob, All Consumed, have always delivered that straight-up, UK death metal sound you are familiar with. No bells and ribbons. Not a crossover in sight. They know how to work it, and they work it well. In the past seven years, the…

Roots Of Our Youth – Martin Robbie (interview) One of the very few positives of lockdown is that a lot of us have had some spare time on our hands. Some have used it to relax. Others have learned new skills. For a trio of old friends, however – Martin…

Ten years is most definitely considered a long time between an artist’s first two full-length releases. You would have to wonder if a band still existed if they had no new output in that time. Yet, here we are with Threshold Sicks, a couple of line-up changes and a decade…

Sacred Reich reissues classic albums Now more than ever, it seems, the world need Sacred Reich. Their outspoken position on the riots at Capitol Hill have put them at odds with some (former) fans who, we have to guess, just didn’t get the lyrics. Even in the very beginning “Death…

When you’re far removed from everything, away on the outer rim, things can get lonely. It’s not for everyone. Sometimes, though, that distance and separation can lead to the creation of beautiful works of art. Towards the furthest flung end of Scotland, in the archipelago of Orkney, Electric Mother have…

Volcano X & Masonic Abyss (interview) Dundee has had its ups and downs in the heavy music scene over the years. At one point, it was a veritable hotbed of new talent for the genre, and, more recently, was proclaimed the UK’s most metal city on Spotify. Of course, we…

Originally posted January 26th 2020: While not hammering skins in Threshold Sicks, multi-instrumentalist, Ross Tanbini, has put a whole lot of time into another passion: Grunge. His solo project, Perfumed Tar, started off many moons ago, but only now is recorded output about to see the light of day. We…

Underground In Prydain: Fede Valls – M2TM Glasgow Originally posted 07th March 2018 As far as UK ‘battle of the bands’ events go, particularly for underground metal, they don’t come hotter than Bloodstock‘s Metal 2 The Masses. The competition sees the country light up with heavy music activity every year….

Underground In Prydain: Goes around, comes around Originally posted 01st July 2014 As stated in the last article, UP has been scouring around the ol’ interwebs in search of some interesting underground stories relating to ‘off-stage audience interaction’ (the word ‘fan’ has been seeming a little odd of late). One…